The Breakfast Club (Ladders)

Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out we’re not too exhausted from last night’s (CENSORED) the caffeine kicks in. Join us every weekday morning at 9am (ET) and weekend morning at 10:00am (ET) (or whenever we get around to it) to talk about current news and our boring lives and to make fun of LaEscapee! If we are ever running late, it’s PhilJD’s fault.

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This Day in History

Uncle Sam cartoon debuts; Law prohibiting teaching evolution goes into effect; Deadly rampage at Scottish elementary school; Brigadoon opens on Broadway.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Boothe Luce

Breakfast News

Criticism of FAA mounts as other nations ground Boeing jets

California governor places moratorium on executions

2,200 quarantined over mumps outbreak at immigration centers

Federal appeals court OKs Ohio law aimed at abortion funding

Confederate statue removed from historic N Carolina court

Gene-edited food quietly arrives in restaurant cooking oil

Jet that crashed in Ethiopia grounded in much of the world

Irish border still a key Brexit obstacle

With Brexit deal down, UK lawmakers have 2 more choices

Venezuelan government targets Guaido as some power returns

US immigration agency moves to close international offices

Indian Ocean exploration makes historic undersea broadcast

Breakfast Blogs

Trump’s ICE Uses Medical Quarantine to Strip People of Their RightsCharles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

Roger Stone’s Seemingly Credible Excuse Starts Falling Apart Well before Bruce Rogow Asks for a Note from His Doctor emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

The other Mueller report digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

If That Was a US Flight Instead of an Ethiopian Flight, Would the FAA Be Hesitating? tristero, Hullabaloo

Sowing discord Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

Impeaching Trump Would Be Purely Symbolic, And There’s No Reason To Think It Would be Effective Symbolism Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

So Are We Holding People Accountable For The Horrid Shit They Said In The Before-Time Now? driftglass, at his blog

A little horse-race pablum for the junkies Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names

RIGHT-WINGERS: CARLSON GETS A PASS ON HIS OLD WORDS BECAUSE MEDIA MATTERS USED … RESEARCH! Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog